Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA06115 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 31 May 2000 08:56:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20000531075344.3493.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [212.140.112.253] From: "Paul marsden" <paulsmarsden@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Cui Bono Chuck? Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 00:53:43 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Chuck wrote
>Both Dawkins and Blackmore go to great pains to say it is "just" a
> >metaphor - and then seem to ignore their warnings.
How can anything be but a metaphor? The whole of science is about models.
Re - Weber: Weber's central insight was that status and political power (or
Party in his words) were key in influencing structural relations within
groups (ulimately societies), as well as class (defined by relation to the
means of economic production) - in other words Weber was making the case
that the ownership of the means of *cultural reproduction* could not be
ignored as might be interpreted from some of Marx's later work.
Good to see that memetics is building bridges and building on existing
models - rather than trying to reinvent the world according to itself in
splendid isolation.
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